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Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael
Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in
Heaven Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision
and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on
earth.

Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent
theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future while also
appreciating ways in which the Reformed tradition provides a unique angle on
broadly catholic concerns. Reaching back to classical ethics as well as its
reformation by Calvin and other Reformed theologians, Grounded in
Heaven offers a distinctly Protestant account of the ascetical calling
to be heavenly-minded and to deny one’s self.